Life Insurance in the United States industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value 2011-15, and forecast to 2020). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United States life insurance market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

HIGHLIGHTS

The value of the life insurance market is shown in terms of gross premium incomes from mortality protection and retirement savings plans. All currency conversions have been calculated using constant 2014 annual average exchange rates. The insurance market depends on a variety of economic and non-economic factors and future performance is difficult to predict. The forecast given in this report is not based on a complex economic model, but is intended as a rough guide to the direction in which the market is likely to move.

The US life insurance market is expected to generate total gross written premiums of $574.3bn in 2015, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.4% between 2011 and 2015.

The pension/annuity segment is expected to be the market's most lucrative in 2015, with total gross written premiums of $412.1bn, equivalent to 71.7% of the market's overall value.

The US is a huge market accounting for around a fifth of the global market value. The decline in 2013 can largely bet attributed to low interest rates in the US.

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the United States economy

KEY QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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Figure 1: United States life insurance market value: $ billion, 2011–15(e)Figure 2: United States life insurance market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2015(e)Figure 3: United States life insurance market geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2015(e)Figure 4: United States life insurance market share: % share, by value, 2015(e)Figure 5: United States life insurance market value forecast: $ billion, 2015–20Figure 6: Forces driving competition in the life insurance market in the United States, 2015Figure 7: Drivers of buyer power in the life insurance market in the United States, 2015Figure 8: Drivers of supplier power in the life insurance market in the United States, 2015Figure 9: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the life insurance market in the United States, 2015Figure 10: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the life insurance market in the United States, 2015Figure 11: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the life insurance market in the United States, 2015Figure 12: MetLife, Inc.: revenues & profitabilityFigure 13: MetLife, Inc.: assets & liabilitiesFigure 14: New York Life Insurance Company: revenues & profitabilityFigure 15: New York Life Insurance Company: assets & liabilitiesFigure 16: Prudential Financial, Inc.: revenues & profitabilityFigure 17: Prudential Financial, Inc.: assets & liabilities